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It is the same as selling a car saying it has a 20 gallon gas capacity, then finding out that the tank itself is 15 gallons and there are 5 one gallon gas cans in the trunk. Yes, there's 20 gallons. Yes, it is all usable. However using the last 5 gallons is slow because you have to stop the car and keep adding it to the tank.
Sure, you're getting 20 gallons, but it can't all be used at the same time.

I've been living in ginormous game engines for 6 years, and the amount of times I've had to, in the span of a timed half an hour, optimize a routine to make sure it was running in the optimal time has been....zero.

They lost the ability to talk to it, they didn't forget how to. They lack the equipment to do it, but they know how to build it, they just don't have the funding and/or desire to do so. Small difference, but your version of the headline sure is sensationalist! What happened to this site?

It is the ONLY EA game I've bought in the last decade. My friends begged me to give it a try, and the talk of 64 player games was really interesting to me. I've learned from my mistake, and won't make it again. For the record, I purchased from Amazon, not direct from EA, so EA would not refund me. I'm absolutely positive Amazon would, but frankly I'm not sure EA would get the message.

This seems to be tied to certain ISPs, especially Uverse. They claim they can't verify it is a US IP address, even though I'm in indiana and the IP clearly comes up under a US company's IP block (AT&T).
The first EA person actually had the nerve to tell me my ISP programmed the release date wrong. The second one said it would be fixed in an hour. Finally after getting a manager he said they are aware of the problem and can only wait until 7pm tomorrow.
I asked why don't they just completely remove the lock outs to let people play the game they paid for, acknowledging that some regions may get early access. That was "impossible". I bet people pirating the game are playing just fine, I feel like a fool for parting with $100 for the deluxe edition.
Not buying another EA game. Some have suggested using a VPN service to somewhere else in North America that the Origin virus can verify you to North America properly. Silly...

I'd like to see your stats on that. The last real figures I've seen show only 30% want it repealed. The Republicans as usual think they speak for everyone when really they only speak for their narrow elitist buddies. It is all really ironic considering the health plan was originally planned by Republicans, until the Obama administration actually got it done... at which point since it wasn't their idea any more it became the WORST THING EVER. Frankly, there are more important things that they could be focusing on, like our crumbling transportation infrastructure or other real problems. If people really wanted them to keep doing this, why does this Congress have the lowest approval rating in the history of political approval tracking?

Maybe Linus needs to create a backup program like he did when he wanted a better version control system and created git? Also, why is the only copy of the changes on his local workstation and not a server with redundancy? This seems rather amateurish.